Hi everyone,
I just updated my openSUSE 11.3 installation from KDE 4.4 to 4.5. (from the factory repository). But I've got a huge problem.. Once I try to log in via KDM, I just get an "Could not start ksmserver, check your installation" error.

If I do xinit ksmserver -- :1 my desktop boots up just fine though, without any errors (plasma, kwin, etc work fine, too)... my file permissions are correct as well.

Contents of .xsession-errors:

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/etc/X11/xim: Checking whether an input method should be started.
/usr/bin/manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
sourcing /etc/sysconfig/language to get the value of INPUT_METHOD
INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method).
Trying to start a default input method for the locale de_DE.UTF-8 ...
There is no default input method for the current locale.
Dummy input method "none" (do not use any fancy input method by default)
startkde: Starting up...
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kded(12760) synaptiks::Touchpad::findTouchpad: device properties unsupported
Fetched layout groups from X server:    layouts: ("de")     variants: ("nodeadkeys")
Invalid D-BUS member name 'idle-hint' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'is-local' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'x11-display-device' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'x11-display' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'display-device' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'remote-host-name' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'session-type' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'unix-user' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
<unknown program name>(12757)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId: creating:  "linux-j42c;1281216782;496037;12757_TIME0" : "unnamed app"
kdeinit4: (ksmserver /usr/bin/ksmserver) Pipe closed unexpectedlykdeinit4: Pipe closed unexpectedly: Die Ressource ist zur Zeit nicht verfügbar (means something like "resource is not available")
KInit could not launch 'ksmserver'.
startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.
QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.5'
startkde: Shutting down...
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/kglobalaccel from kdeinit

I'm not sure what other info could be needed, but if there's any missing information here, just ask. I appreciate any advice on this issue

Try removing the contents of /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER, /tmp/ksocket-$USER and /tmp/kde-$USER outside KDE.

Nope, didn't help either :/

EDIT:
Alright, seems like I'm still using some packages from the stable repo... I'll update these as well and tell you if that worked.

Does a new user work?

nevermind, completely removing all KDE packages and reinstalling them from the factory repo solved my problem.